til/unix/show-the-size-of-everything-in-a-directory.md

Show The Size Of Everything In A Directory

The ls command will list everything in a given directory. The du command is used to display disk usage statistics -- with the -sh flag, it will display the file size in a human readable format.

We can combine these two commands with xargs to get a listing of the sizes of everything in a directory.

ls | xargs du -sh

See man du and man xargs for more details.